Coping with obesity stigma affects depressed mood in African-American and white candidates for bariatric surgery

Obesity

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1118-1121

  Fettich, Karla C ^a,b   Chen, Eunice Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRYING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NARCISSISM; OBESITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; STIGMA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGING; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL STIGMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860295065     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2012.12     Document Type: Article

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